open image in gallery Starmer can learn a lot from Attlee – starting with defence budgets (House of Commons) When war broke out on the Korean peninsula in 1950, which many thought the first ...

I guess it went back not to Harold Wilson’s Labour government of the 1960’s but to the one before that. Clement Attlee’s 1945-51 administration was arguably the most effective of all the post war ...

This year, two of its students, Zain Qureshi, 20, from Burnley and Connor Moore, 20, from Accrington, had the opportunity to represent their peers at the first-ever Youth Parliament event for ...

Clement Attlee lacked most of the qualities that make for success in politics. He was almost cripplingly shy and self-effacing. His appearance was unimpressive, his speeches uninspiring, his lack of ...